Jersey burning is always dumb. If you don’t want to wear the jersey of a player who left your team, donate it. It’s one thing when players sign elsewhere as free agents, as Gordon Hayward did. It’s a bit more understandable when players request a trade, as Kyrie Irving did. But why in the world were Celtics fans burning Isaiah Thomas jerseys, when Thomas had no say in the trade and, if anything, was the one betrayed by the front office?

LeBron James unleashed a Twitter rant on Thursday expressing the ridiculousness of the jersey burning trend, going to bat for Thomas as well as Hayward.

The burning of the jersey thing is getting ridiculous now! The man was traded. What do u not understand? & played in a game after …..

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Jesse is a writer and editor for The Comeback. He has also worked for SI.com and runs The Catch and Shoot, a college basketball website based in Chicago. He is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. Follow Jesse on Twitter @Jesse_Kramer.